Abstract:The need of fully automated microassembly systems place specific functional requirements on the design and fabrication of critical elements such as grippers, sensors, manipulators and feeders. A new microfeeder design is proposed based on contactless pneumatic distributed manipulation. By cooperation of dynamically programmable microactuators, a number of feeding functions and even some elementary assembly operations can be achieved.
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